Regardless of where or the reason that place- pain, easier to hide, just someplace different, one thing is apparent. While it is being used as a coping method to relieve extremes of pain or emotion, it does not last long and becomes less satisfying and does less to relieve anything over time. That is why the ever evolving methods and locations looking for relief that it no longer really gives.

A far safer and more satisfying method is to keep trying to find ways to address the underlying stress or situation that makes the need to seek relief take on a dangerous coping method like cutting.